Spyware Information: Adknowledge
This application is adware. Adware is not normally a threat, but is usually considered a nuisance. It might have been installed by another application. It can pop up advertisements even if you have a popup blocker on your computer. It can monitor your computer usage to generate ads that you are more likely to respond to. Adware can consume processing power and network bandwidth, thus slowing down your computer and interrupting your workflow.
- Size: 598,016 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 1,101 this month: 0
- Author: ak-networks.com
- Appeared: 1/26/2005
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- Method of infection: Adknowledge must be manually installed. This usually happens when Adknowledge is bundled with ad-supported software. It can also be downloaded by clicking on an Adknowledge banner ad.
- Advertising: Adknowledge creates targeted popup advertisements. It also inserts banner advertisements in webpages and sends spam emails.
- Browser degradation: Adknowledge includes a browser helper object, and as such may cause Internet Explorer to run slowly.
- Privacy issues: Adknowledge tracks your web-surfing habits and reports that information back to its controlling servers. Adknowledge claims they track only by a unique ID number.
- Privacy policy: There is no privacy policy available online. They do mention a few of their practices here.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,646
- Detections this Month: 793
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